Aren't there ANY NFL players or coaches who are Democrats?

[Cascadian]

I mean past or present. Are there any people in the NFL both past and present that are liberals or Democrats? Apart from Rosey Grier, I cannot see anybody else that are not Republicans. You have Matt Hasselbeck (My team's quarterback! UGH!), Mike Ditka, Steve Largent (Another Seahawk! AWWWW!), Jack Kemp, Mark Brunell, John Lynch, and on and on are Republicans or are connected with the GOP. I suppose there are a lot of "jocks" who are conservative but surely there are some Democrat "jocks".


John

[ComerPerro]

1. Two things: One, they have to keep the toughguy image up

and, two, they are in many cases rich, self-absorbed assholes. So, naturally, it stands to reason that they would be republican.

[upi402]

3. LOL, the 2X4 of truth

HURTS!

so true

[Cascadian]

6. That is true.

Money changes everything and anybody to some extent and of course the NFL does have that "macho" image to uphold.


John

[democrat in Tallahassee]

2. Eddie George worked on Gore's campaign

Warrick Dunn is a Dem, I'm pretty sure. Best guy in the NFL

[KyuzoGator]

4. Jake Plummer was Pat Tillman's best friend.

He's pissed off at the Bush administration and very much against the war(s). He's been vocal about it.

[genie_weenie]

18. Plummer's anti-Bush stance is why the Steelers beat the Broncos!

The * admin forced the NFL, under pain of punishment under the anti-trust laws (Courts ruled that way in the 80s) if Plummer made it to the Super Bowl...

[democracyindanger]

5. Kyle Orton

[genie_weenie]

19. Cool!

Go Bears! Did he pick it up in Iowa?

[regnaD kciN]

7. Hate to disillusion you further...

...but, although Roosevelt Grier was a civil-rights activist who campaigned for RFK in 1968, he later (by the early '80s) became a fundie spouting the usual religious-right claptrap. I don't know if he changed back again.

[old blue]

10. If *Jackie Freakin Robinson* can be a republican,

well,

I'm still contemplating that.

[old blue]

8. Ricky Williams?

[KyuzoGator]

13. A peace-loving, world-traveling, philosophical pot smoker?

Indeed, I think the odds of him being a Republican are pretty slim.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. Franco Harris (Steeler RB from great 70's teams)

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2004/10/10-25-04tdc/10-25-04dnews-15.asp

[libnnc]

11. Heath Shuler

and he running for Charles Taylor's (Moscow Mafia-linked, crooked sonofabitch Taylor) seat.

http://www.heathshuler.com/

[Twist_U_Up]

12. You would think they all would be.....

considering if it wasnt for the NFL Players Union they wouldnt be able to afford to be repunks.

[Ksec]

14. Good point. All players are Union

I imagine it goes like the population goes.
50/50 or whatever it is. Who knows. The players know not to get political.

[MrSlayer]

15. There are an awful lot of fundies in the NFL.

And in pro sports in general except for hockey. The NHL players are mostly from liberal European countries and Canada.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. The only one that I know of was Pat Tilman

And you know what happened to him!

(Also, notably, the only one who gave up the multimillion dollar contract to serve his country, so there you have it...)

[SIU_Blue]

17. Kyle Orton, Chicago Bears backup QB.

Has said that he would someday like to run for congress, is a liberal dem.

Sadly, the rest of his team has a republican-like way of falling apart when the true test starts.